Synonyms of the word dedicate


DEDICATEAPPLY - ASSIGN - COMMIT - CONSECRATE - DEVOTE - EMPLOY - GIVE - INAUGURATE - RENDER - SPECIFY - USE - UTILISE - UTILIZE

dedicate

  • v. (transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.
  • v. (transitive) To set apart for a special use.
  • v. (transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.
  • v. (transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or…
  • v. (transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
  • v. (transitive) To show to the public for the first time.
  • adj. (obsolete) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

apply

  • v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
  • v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
  • v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
  • v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  • v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
  • v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
  • v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit.
  • adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

assign

  • v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
  • v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
  • v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
  • v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
  • n. An assignee.
  • n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

commit

  • v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
  • v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  • v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
  • v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  • v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  • v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
  • v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
  • n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

consecrate

  • v. To declare something holy, or otherwise make it holy.
  • adj. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

devote

  • v. To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
  • v. To consign over; to doom.
  • v. To execrate; to curse.
  • adj. (obsolete) Devoted; addicted; devout.

employ

  • n. The state of being an employee; employment.
  • v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
  • v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
  • v. To make busy.

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

inaugurate

  • v. (transitive) To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
  • v. (transitive) To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
  • adj. Invested with office; inaugurated.

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

specify

  • v. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
  • v. (transitive) To include in a specification.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.

use

  • n. The act of using.
  • n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
  • n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
  • n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
  • n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
  • n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
  • n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
  • n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
  • v. To accustom; to habituate.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
  • v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
  • v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
  • v. (transitive) To exploit.
  • v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
  • v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
  • v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
  • v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

  • v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
  • v. To make use of; to use.
  • v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
  • v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilize

  • v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.

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